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turkey with old newspapers!”

- EDITORIAL :

Things to remember

M onday of this week, November 11, was Remem-
brance Day and the 50th anniversary of the end of
World War 1, the “‘war to end all wars.”’

We of an older generation can remember those four years
of squandering human life; the mass murder, destruction,
hunger and disease. These things we can remember, but we
readily forget the broken promises of ‘‘statesmen’’ and
politicians, and the war fortunes amassed by the international
merchants of death.

The ‘‘Old Sweats,’ veterans of that war now grown old,
remember only their young buddies left behind, their bodies
shattered by shrapnel, their guts torn asunder by poison gas,
the assinine criminal stupidities of a class and caste-encrusted
command. Things these aging veterans would like to forget —
but cannot.

For the youth of today there is nothing to remember. . .
other than a monstrous betrayal of the dead of World War 1 —
and the added millions who perished in World War 11 — (which
most of the history books still distort), plus the prospect of the
prospect of other countless millions yet to be incincerated in a
nuclear holocaust, should the imperialist arsonists who lit the
fires of the ‘‘war to end all wars’’ be permitted to continue on
their criminal course. -

At the end of World War 1 came the Versailles Peace Treaty
and its punishment of the alleged aggressors. A great French
cartoonist of the times sketched a prophetic picture. It showed
the stately pillars of the Palace of Versailles, with the
representatives of the ‘‘victor’’ countries emerging having
finished their labors to assure “‘peace’’.

Lloyd George of Britain, Woodrow Wilson of the USA, M.
Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau (The Tiger) of
France. Hidden behind one of those stately columns, a little

_ragged child stands with bowed head.

El Tigre pauses, and half turned towards his colleagues,
exclaims, ‘‘Methinks I hear a child weeping.”

He did. The child which followed its father 21-years later into
the holocaust of World War II — the ‘‘war to save democracy”’
for the war-makers. The war which the ‘‘peace makers”’ of
Versailles had incorporated in their ill-devised ‘‘peace”’ treaty,
and which their imperialist successors lavishly helped Hitler to
destroy.

Fifty years later the child that Georges Clemenceau heard
“‘weeping”’ at Versailles still weeps — in every hamlet, village
and city in Vietnam, its poor body burned to a crisp by U.S.
napalm bombs, or torn to shreds by U.S. massed bombing,
“personalized’’ and other horror weapons of mass death and
destruction.

What all humanity should particularly remember on
Remembrance Day is that the time-fuse for World War III is
already ticking, and unless stamped out — there will be no
children left to laugh — or weep; that the nuclear horror which

today hangs over mankind like a ‘‘Sword of Damocles’’, -

together with the tragic years of the Hitler era, are, each in
their totality the evil progency of World War 1.

That much we should remember, not only on
Remembrance Day but every day of the week; to ‘‘keep faith
with those who died” in order that the youth of today and
tomorrow may live — and love and laugh, in their world of
peace and brotherhood.

‘West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune
Editor—TOM McEWEN Associate Editor-—MAURICE RUSH

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> Tribune

Ald. Rankin asks:

WHO PAYS THE SHOT
FOR REGIONAL GOVT:

By Ald. Harry Rankin
Election Committee

For some time the provincial
government has been pressing
hard for the establishment of a
regional form of government on
the Lower Mainland which would
take over responsibility for
major services now supplied by
municipal governments.

But taxpayers have tended to
regard Regional Government
with considerable suspicion.
The attempt to merge the City
and District of North Van-
couver, for example, fell through
last September when voters
failed to give it the required
majorities. Similarily, Mayor
Allan Emmot’s proposal to
merge Burnaby and Vancouver
has received a lukewarm
reception in both municipalities.

Alderman Harry Rankin of

Vancouver also has his doubts
about Regional Government. He
has set them out in a pamphlet
titled ‘‘Who Pays the Shot?”’

His conclusion is that Regional
Government can be either good
or bad depending entirely on how
and in whose interests it is
carried through. In discussing its
effects on such issues as hospital
services, regional borrowing,
public housing, pollution control,
rapid transit and regional
colleges, he presents strong
arguments showing that the
provincial. government . wants
Regional Government so that it
may shift to local taxpayers
more of the bills for services that
Victoria should be paying.

Alderman Rankin insists that
Regional Government ' (includ-
ing the merger. of Vancouver and
Burnaby) will be of benefit to the
people only if it includes the
following reforms:

,e’A substantial increase in
provincial grants for education
and other services;

-e@ Redistribution of the tax
burden by requiring big
commercial and_ industrial
properties to pay a fair share of
property taxes;

e@ A large scale public low
rental housing scheme to provide
decent homes for all lower
income groups;

e Regulations to protect
tenants from unscrupulous land
lords;

@A low fare rapid transit
system;

eA hospital expansion pro-
gram;

WHO

e Full protection of job 4
seniority rights for ClV
employees affected by 4
merging of services. we
_. The 16-page pamphlet outlint
Alderman Rankin’s views
priced at 10¢ and is available
the Harry Rankin Election C0!
mittee Headquarters, 415 F?
Building, 193 East Hasti
Street, Vancouver, phone
7937.

PAYS THE SHOT?

for Regional Government
on the

Lower Mainland

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Some critical views by
Vancouver's .

ALDERMAN HARRY RANK!

Above is the front page of Ald. Rankin’s latest pamphlet.

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Anti-Communism the crimina

By ERNIE CRIST

“T don’t care whether he is one
or 90 years old. If he’s a Commie,
he’s got it coming.’ This
statement was made by James
McLean of 3772 St. Catherine St.
to a police officer after being
charged with assaulting PT
salesman Steve Nickyforuk in
front of the Patricia Hotel in
downtown Vancouver on October
21st.

The police officer, after
arriving at the scene, had asked
McLean whether he knew that
the man he had attacked was
more than twice his age.

The evidence against McLean
came to light in Magistrates
Court on Nov. 6th in the Van-
couver Public Safety Building on
Main and Cordova where the
trial took place.

PT salesman Nickyforuk
testified that McLean tried to
grab a paper from him in the
Patricia Hotel after . asking
“what kind of a paper, are you
selling?’’, When, Nickyforuk
replied, ‘‘This is the Pacific

Tribune, a Communist paper,”
McLean said: ‘‘I don’t like Com-
munists; let me see that paper,”’
and he then tried to grab a paper
away from Nickyforuk who was
carrying the papers on his arm.
Nickyforuk testified that he then
pushed McLean’s hands away
from the papers. McLean then
got up and started to push Nicky-
furuk out the door of the hotel. —

Outside the hotel, McLean
kicked Nickyforuk to the ground
and continued to kick him about
the head and other parts of the
body, even after Nickyforuk was
lying semi-conscious on the
ground. Nickyforuk suffered
severe lacerations and bruises
about the head and other parts of
the body and had to be taken to
hospital.

When McLean’s defence
council cross examined Nicky-

Bail was set at $10,000 cash or
property last Saturday for 23-year
old Alexander McLean, of 3772 St.
Catherines, accused of rape. The
case was remanded to this Friday..,

foruk in the witness stand,
asked, ‘‘Are you a member 0
Communist Party?”
Nickyforuk said, ‘‘Yes, I amt
McLean’s lawyer said to Hi}
‘‘Communists believe.
violence.” Nickyforuk repl!
“I do not believe in violenct
McLeans lawyer continué
“You are a member of the C?

munist Party but you 4?
believe in violence?’’ ‘I d0!
believe in violence,” rep!
Nickyforuk.

The assault charges aga!
McLean involving Nickyfot
followed close onthe heels
another assault charge }
against McLean following
incident on October 14th
Broadway and Nanaimo in Vs
couver. McLean was fov
guilty of assaulting a custom
in.a cafe and causing prope!
damage. He was ordered to F
$75 in damages to a 10
shoreman and to a waitress.

McLean, _,consequently, ‘
found guilty of assault caus
bodily harm to Steve Nickyf0
and fined $175. ©